Protocols for distributed systems make often use of random transitions to achieve a common goal. A popular example are randomized leader election protocols. We introduce probabilis...
In order to find suitable web services in a large market of web services, automatic support is needed to filter out web services semantically. Existing matchmaking approaches ma...
Testing cannot cover all execution schedules in concurrent software. Model checking, however, is capable of verifying the outcome of all possible executions. It has been applied s...
Knowledge-based programs provide an abstract level of description of protocols in which agent actions are related to their states of knowledge. The paper describes how epistemic mo...
Future Interval Logic (FIL) and its intuitive graphical representation, Graphical Interval Logic (GIL), can be used as the formal description language of model checking tools to v...